Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide

Domestic homicide is violence that strikes within our most intimate relations. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. But through examining commonly accepted typologies of high-risk intimate partner violence, Ardath Whynacht shows that policing can be understood as part of the same root problem as the violence it seeks to mend and provides an abolitionist frame for the most dangerous forms of intimate partner violence. This book illustrates that the origins of both the carceral state and toxic masculinity are situated in settler colonialism and racial capitalism and sees police homicide and domestic homicide as akin. Describing an experience of domestic homicide in her community and providing a deeply personal analysis of some of the most recent cases of homicide in Canada, the author inhabits the complexity of seeking abolitionist justice. Insurgent Love traces the major risk factors for domestic homicide within the structures of racial capitalism and suggests transformative, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist approaches for safety, prevention and justice.

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Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide

Domestic homicide is violence that strikes within our most intimate relations. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. But through examining commonly accepted typologies of high-risk intimate partner violence, Ardath Whynacht shows that policing can be understood as part of the same root problem as the violence it seeks to mend and provides an abolitionist frame for the most dangerous forms of intimate partner violence. This book illustrates that the origins of both the carceral state and toxic masculinity are situated in settler colonialism and racial capitalism and sees police homicide and domestic homicide as akin. Describing an experience of domestic homicide in her community and providing a deeply personal analysis of some of the most recent cases of homicide in Canada, the author inhabits the complexity of seeking abolitionist justice. Insurgent Love traces the major risk factors for domestic homicide within the structures of racial capitalism and suggests transformative, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist approaches for safety, prevention and justice.

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Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide

Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide

by Ardath Whynacht
Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide

Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide

by Ardath Whynacht

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Domestic homicide is violence that strikes within our most intimate relations. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. But through examining commonly accepted typologies of high-risk intimate partner violence, Ardath Whynacht shows that policing can be understood as part of the same root problem as the violence it seeks to mend and provides an abolitionist frame for the most dangerous forms of intimate partner violence. This book illustrates that the origins of both the carceral state and toxic masculinity are situated in settler colonialism and racial capitalism and sees police homicide and domestic homicide as akin. Describing an experience of domestic homicide in her community and providing a deeply personal analysis of some of the most recent cases of homicide in Canada, the author inhabits the complexity of seeking abolitionist justice. Insurgent Love traces the major risk factors for domestic homicide within the structures of racial capitalism and suggests transformative, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist approaches for safety, prevention and justice.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781773630847
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Publication date: 10/31/2021
Sold by: De Marque
Format: eBook
Pages: 161
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Ardath Whynacht is an activist and writer who works for and with survivors of state & family violence and the psychiatric system. She teaches Sociology at Mount Allison University and lives on unceded Mi’kmaw territory.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Domestic Homicide and Abolition 6

Police Homicide 7

A Note on Language 8

Feminist Abolition 12

Positionality/Complicity 16

Healing Justice Has Always Been Here 19

On Whiteness, Violence and Abolition 23

Insurgent Collaboration 24

The "Dangerous Few" are Many and Multiple 26

Butcher 30

Settler Colonialism and Intimate Terrorism 38

Typologies of Intimate Partner Violence 41

Intimate Terrorism and Domestic Homicide: Johnsons Typology 43

Intimate Terrorism/Coercive Control 47

Situational Family Violence 48

Rigid Typologies sire Always, Unavoidably, Imperfect 50

Settler Colonialism, Policing and Homicide 51

An Abusive Relationship with the State 56

The Nuclear Family Is a Microcosm of the Settler State 58

Possessiveness, Power and Strategic Violence 61

Portapique 63

Occupation, Racial Capitalism and the "Familicidal Heart" 73

Occupation and Domestic Homicide 77

Emotionally Dependent verus Antisocial Killers 81

Cops and Soldiers: Non-Civilian, Reputable Hearts? 83

The Intimate Knowledge of Survivors 85

Abolish Occupation? 87

Desmond 89

Towards Transformative Justice and Collective Survivorship 95

Intervention: The Dangerous Work of Healing Justice for State and Intimate Terrorism 99

Community-Based Risk Assessment, Safety Thresholds and Safety Planning 104

The Suicidal or "Emotionally Dependent" Abuser 107

Not All Abusers Are the Same: Child Victims Need Us to Understand Their Abusers 108

From Child Welfare to Family Support 110

What Do We Do With the Dangerous Few? Intimate Terrorists in a World Without Police 111

Disarmament, Collective Security and Self Defence 114

Miklat 115

Boundary-Setting and Disposability 118

Prevention and Transformation: Collective Survivorship and Insurgent Love 120

Surrogate Kinship 121

Holding Space for Surviving Kin 122

We Need Free, Accessible Mental Health Care 123

Youth Work Is Abolitionist Work: Surrogate Kinship Is Care 125

Insurgent Love 126

Epilogue 131

Acknowledgements 134

References 136

Index 144

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